Published: March 3, 2025
CHAPTER 712: Purple Mist Phenomenon, Joining the Fun
Fifty miles, seventy miles, one hundred miles...
It wasn’t until Liu Yu completely disappeared from their spiritual consciousness that the three Golden Guards finally gave up the chase.
In fact, when they had already closed in to about seventy miles, their attacks had reached their target, but the power had diminished by more than half, making it difficult to pose any real threat.
However, to come with such a grand show of force and ultimately allow the “thief leader” to escape was indeed a little hard to swallow.
They had to at least put on a show of having tried their best so they could find an excuse later.
Because of this, the three Golden Guards only gave up the pursuit once Liu Yu was completely out of their spiritual consciousness range.
As for the spiritual ship that was trailing them, although its combat power had indeed reached the late third stage level, it was ultimately not as agile as a cultivator of the same stage when it came to moving.
Not to mention that both the Golden Guards and Liu Yu had escape speeds that far exceeded those of cultivators of the same stage.
Therefore, the gigantic spiritual ship, resembling a small mountain, could only follow far behind, unable to exert any effective pressure.
Perhaps its greater role was to provide a temporary shelter for the three in case of unexpected incidents.
After all, considering the ship's lack of agility, its defensive capabilities were extremely strong; it was almost like a moving Immortal City, capable of providing excellent protection at critical moments.
In the event of a crisis, it could also allow them to retreat to the ship and regroup.
On the other side, upon sensing that the spiritual consciousness locking onto him had vanished, Liu Yu immediately activated the “Concealment Technique” to suppress his presence and constructed a “Wall of Spiritual Consciousness” to block any further scans.
Using a series of secret techniques, the figures of him and Tian Xiaoyu vanished into thin air.
These various secret techniques merely served to hide one’s existence from both the physical and spiritual consciousness realms.
To be more specific, they dealt with spiritual power and consciousness.
Regardless of the type of secret technique, at its core, it was an intricate application of spiritual consciousness and power to achieve the effect of concealment.
Liu Yu had thoroughly mastered techniques such as “Concealment Technique,” “Invisibility Technique,” and “Wall of Spiritual Consciousness.”
After arriving in the Central Domain, he had also read extensively and learned much of the advanced cultivation knowledge there, especially regarding the use of spiritual consciousness and power.
Although the secret techniques Liu Yu possessed were relatively few, he understood the fundamental principles of concealment and suppression of breath very well, and he often contemplated and researched them.
Even without relying on secret techniques, by merely applying the principles of spiritual consciousness and power he had already grasped, he could achieve a similar effect.
To track his movements, one would either need to have a higher attainment in spiritual consciousness and power or possess a much stronger and more discerning awareness.
The so-called “secret techniques” are, in plain terms, just methods of employing certain forms of spiritual power or consciousness, or a combination of both, organized into coherent forms.
Because certain methods were indeed excellent and could more efficiently utilize the might of spiritual power or consciousness, they were passed down through generations, forming fixed applications.
The secret techniques thus formed, by the time they reached the hands of modern practitioners, were often already quite mature, with clear effects and potential side effects.
However, in the distant ancient times, the cultivation world was not as diverse in spells and secret techniques as it is today; cultivators were still exploring various arts of cultivation.